James Carville Gets Behind Ready For Hillary PAC

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James Carville — the chief strategist of Bill Clinton’s 1992 bid for the presidency — is backing the Ready for Hillary PAC, calling on supporters to build a “real grassroots organization” to encourage the former Secretary of State to run for president in 2016.

“I’m not going to waste my time writing you about how great Hillary is or how formidable she’d be – you know it all already,” Carville writes in an email to supporters. “But it isn’t worth squat to have the fastest car at the racetrack if there ain’t any gas in the tank — and that’s why the work that Ready for Hillary PAC is doing is absolutely critical. We need to convert the hunger that’s out there for Hillary’s candidacy into a real grassroots organization.”

Carville says he’s made “no secret” of the fact that he wants the former First Lady and twice-elected senator from New York to run.

Her unprecedented position as the presumptive Democratic nominee — if she chooses to run — has some speculating that the so-called “invisible primary” that takes place in the years leading up to the actual primary is “frozen.” However, that hasn’t stopped those on the right from beginning to take aim at her.

“Conservatives have spent two decades trying to destroy Clinton,” he writes. “They’ve only helped make her the most popular woman in America. And if they keep at it, they’re going to help make her president.”

Mrs. Clinton has been out of politics for so long that she isn’t yet on Facebook or Twitter — but the Ready for Hillary PAC already has 60,000 “likes” on Facebook.